Ernest
L. Wiggins
Associate Professor
Electronic and Print Journalism Sequence
B.A. and M.A., University of South Carolina
Ernest
Wiggins is a tenured associate professor of journalism.
A former reporter and editor for The State (Columbia, S.C.)
and the Columbia (S.C.) Record, Wiggins joined the faculty
in 1993, returning to the school from which he'd earned both
his bachelor's and master's degree. Wiggins has done additional
postgraduate study in social structures and social networks.
His areas of teaching and research specialization are newsgathering
and reporting trends, media ethics, media literacy, newsroom
operations, and mass media and social justice.
He's presented research at Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communications national conferences and
regional colloquia. His research has been published in "Framing
Public Life: Perspective on Media and Our Understanding of
the Social World."
He has been a guest columnist for The State and his work
has been reprinted in Stein and Paterno's "The Newswriter's
Handbook" and Kreml, et al., "College Writing:
Reading, Analyzing, and Writing."
He's attended seminars in writing and new media and convergence
at the Poynter Institute and American Press Institute and
was selected to be one of two faculty members to attend the
Medicine in the Media workshop at the National Institutes
of Health in 2005.
Wiggins has been recognized for his teaching and is sought
after to mentor students and direct student research.
He's the adviser to the campus chapter of SPJ, which he
revitalized out of dormancy in 2004. For his efforts, Wiggins
received the David Eshelman Outstanding Campus Adviser award
from SPJ in 2005.
In addition to SPJ, Wiggins is a member of the National
Association of Black Journalists, the American Civil Liberties
Union and the American Association of University Professors.
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